With teams using more than 100 unique apparatuses to launch globular projectiles a half-mile or more, the 27th annual World Championship Punkin Chunkin event is our pick as November’s Weird Festival of the Month.

The Hawaiian Airlines flight was diverted to Los Angeles after a man was accused of harassing a woman.

A company spokesman says the man was removed from the jet that departed Las Vegas early Friday.

Los Angeles airport police Sgt. Jim Holcomb says the man was interviewed and released after the woman declined to press charges. Holcomb did not know the exact nature of the disruption or if the passengers knew each other.

The flight resumed to Honolulu and arrived three hours late.

On Wednesday, a Maui-bound flight from Portland, Ore., was turned around and escorted by military jets because of a disruptive passenger.

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